#E5E655#E5E655

#E5E655 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.739; OKLCH L 89.8% C 0.163 H 109.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.78:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E655
RGB	rgb(229, 230, 85)
HSL	hsl(60, 74%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(60, 63%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0.4%, 0%, 63%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.88, -17.85, 67.94)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.88, 70.25, 104.72°)
OKLab	oklab(89.8% -0.0549 0.1538)
OKLCH	oklch(89.8% 0.163 109.7)
XYZ	xyz(62.2516, 73.9092, 19.5792)
Luminance	0.7391 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E655 #5655E6

analogous

#E69F55 #E5E655 #9DE655

triadic

#E5E655 #55E5E6 #E655E5

tetradic

#E5E655 #55E69F #5655E6 #E6559D

square

#E5E655 #55E69F #5655E6 #E6559D

split-complementary

#E5E655 #559DE6 #9F55E6

monochromatic

#A7A819 #DCDD21 #E5E655 #EDEE8A #F5F6C0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.33

#E5E655 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.78

#E5E655 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E655

15.78:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E655	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E655	1.00	1.33	15.78	15.78
#FFFFFF	1.33	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.78	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.78	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F7DD42

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F9E15E

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4D8C8

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e655;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 230, 85);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.8% 0.163 109.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ed8c',
    500: '#e5e655',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e655;
$custom-light: #f0ed8c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e655",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 230,
    "b": 85
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60.414,
    "s": 74.359,
    "l": 61.765
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89798,
    "c": 0.16331,
    "h": 109.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.73908
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E655

secondary

#3636AA

accent

#0FD610

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E655

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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